Math fail. 40000*.31=12400 40000*.19=7600 Plugging the other factors in, you get 22600 for the socialist example, and 22400 for the capitalist example. Even if your math were correct, these tax figures are not. In any case, please check your work next time. There are advantages and disadvantages to both systems, and if the USA system were less poorly/greedily administered the numbers could be notably better for its citizens, at almost any income level.

I'm guessing you have never been attacked by fire ants.

If you aren't using incendiary or at least EMP/magnetics in your critical nonencrypted and poorly-defended infrastructure, your tech is an assault weapon-wielding albatross around your neck.

That you think that libertarians are part and parcel of the GOP shows that you really don't understand US politics.

Pretty sure it's dry as in "Nobody knows how dry I am".

Yep. 108 on Friday, and just a little lower Saturday and Sunday (I'm in Monroe, so pretty close). We have mostly stayed inside during peak hours, but that also has to do with some physical issues, and the heat was just one more thing (also, no AC outside the house).

Emacs is a pretty cool project, and preferred mostly by coders, in my experience. Vi, on the other hand, is the only full screen text editor that is almost guaranteed to be in a default UNIX-type install, and if you work on many machines in a standardized production environment, you'd better at least learn the basics. I may not always use it at home but it has been the standard in almost every non-windows environment I have ever spent time on.

Not in NC, it's not. Federally, maybe.

I sense injury. The data could be called pain.

Like many other children, I had this performed on a tooth or 2 to give adult teeth room to grow. I suppose it depends on the purpose of the extractions.

Are you referring to the study about underground water draining out to the sea? It was on here last week, and conjecting the speculated effects of well and other pumped out water usage like this is exactly the kind of illogical contrived causal link that leads people to calling the AGW hypothesis junk science. If you have 2 separate points about possible earth-altering effects, cool, but don't just mash them together in a paragraph as if they have some relation to one another. Aside from this, while the science is still young and not well-vetted (I.e. the models, while making improved correlation to past data, are still consistently incorrect in actually predicting climate), I think your points make some sense and I am highly in favor of trying to keep a balance with nature, as long as we don't do anything that punishes regular people unduly to the benefit of huge corporations and the filthy rich (which is exactly what forcing far greater costs for energy production would do).

That's odd. *I* want a 19" low-power-drain supercomputer too! If anyone has the resources, clout, and will to execute a research project like this, DARPA has my vote.